Portuguese activity on figures of speech, connotation and denotation. With reading of a poem entitled: Umbrella wings, analysis of the song “Certain Things” by singer Lulu Santos and analysis of the cover of Veja magazine. This activity is aimed at the first year of high school, however, it can be used in other grades for content review.
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1) Read the poem by Heitor Ferraz and answer:
When it starts to rain,
bats get mad.
open the black wings,
and in the rain they bathe.
Pass on low flights
scraping through our heads.
Some stir and dance,
others fly in a hurry.
But when the rain stops
-zapt, zupt-, the wing closes,
and they sleep together
behind the door, in a breach.
some poor bastards
they end up forgotten.
get sad and hung
between lost and found.
Animals from the city of São Paulo
a) How many verses are there in the poem “Umbrella Wings”?
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b) How many stanzas are there in the poem?
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c) Rewrite two pairs of rhymes from the poem.
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2) Identify the figures of speech in the sentences below:
a) "They are sad and hanging between lost and found."
( ) hyperbole
( ) antithesis
( ) metaphor
b) He sang a beautiful song.
( ) hyperbole
( ) pleonasm
( ) metaphor
ç) She saw it with her own eyes.
( ) hyperbole
( ) pleonasm
( ) metaphor
d) That woman is a lioness.
( ) metaphor
( ) Comparation
( ) hyperbole
e) Life comes in waves like the sea.
( ) metaphor
( )Comparation
( )prosopopeia
f) I want peace not war.
( ) antithesis
( ) Comparation
( ) metaphor
g) That girl is not nice, she subtracted money from my account.
( ) hyperbole
( ) euphemism
( ) metaphor
H) The ant said to the cicada: ” It sang…now dance!
( ) hyperbole
( ) euphemism
( ) prosopopeia
3) Read the text: Cannibalism among insects
Beings that are born in the heads of others and that progressively consume their bodies until they annihilate them, when they reach the adult stage. … This is a plot that looks more like science fiction. However, it has happened since prehistory, with wasps of certain species as protagonists, and it is an example of the curious relationship of the 'natural enemies', used by man in the biological control of pests, to replace insecticides with many advantages chemicals.
(Science Today Magazine, nº 104, October 1994, Rio, SBPC)
a) Does the text have denotative or connotative language? Explain.
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4) Put ( D ) for denotative and ( Ç ) for connotative:
( ) Today I will go to the movies.
( ) João broke the bathroom mirror.
( ) This boy has a heart of gold.
( ) Praça do Peixe is in the heart of Bataguassu.
( ) I had a heart transplant.
() Karina is really bad, she has a heart of stone.
( ) To win the fight, it was necessary to reach the heart of the country.
( ) Kelly completed twenty springs.
( ) In spring the flowers open their petals.
( ) He ran a lot, but he didn't take the train to São Paulo.
( ) The storm was terrible in Rio de Janeiro.
( ) My mother is my mirror.
( )Carla overcame her marital problems.
( )"Love is a fire that burns without being seen..."
( )Pedro lives in the heart of São Paulo.
5) Look at the image below and answer:
( ) the connotation
( ) the denotation
b) In the sense of "eat the earth” overlaps, the connotation, denotation, as it is in the figurative sense.
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6) Highlight in the lyrics all the antitheses you find.
there would be no sound
if there was no silence
there would be no light
if not for the darkness
life is just like that
day and night, no and yes
Every voice that sings love doesn't say
all you want to say
everything that shuts up speaks
higher to heart
silently i speak to you with passion
I love you silent
like someone listening to a symphony
Of silences and light
we are fear and desire
We are made of silence and sound
There are certain things I can't say...
By Rosiane Fernandes Silva
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